The 35 Original Essays In A Companion To Narrative Theory Constitute The Best Available Introduction To This Vital And Contested Field Of Humanistic Enquiry. The Essays Represent All The Major Critical Approaches To Narrative - Narratological, Rhetorical, Feminist, Post-structuralist, Historicist - And Investigate And Debate The Relations Among Them. In Addition, They Stretch The Boundaries Of The Field By Considering Narratives In Different Disciplines, Such As Law And Medicine, And In A Variety Of Media, Including Film, Music, And Painting.--jacket. 1. Histories Of Narrative Theory (i):a Genealogy Of Early Developments: David Herman (ohio State University) -- 2. Histories Of Narrative Theory (ii): From Structuralism To The Present: Monika Fludernik (university Of Freiburg) -- 3. Ghosts And Monsters: On The (im)possibility Of Narrating The History Of Narrative Theory: Brian Mchale (ohio State University) Part I: New Light On Stubborn Problems -- 4. Resurrection Of The Implied Author: Why Bother? Wayne C. Booth (university Of Chicago) -- 5. Reconceptualizing Unreliable Narration: Synthesizing Cognitive And Rhetorical Approaches: Ansgar F. NΓΌnning (justus-liebig-university Of Giessen) 6. Authorial Rhetoric, Narratorial (un)reliability, Divergent Readings: Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata: Tamar Yacobi (tel-aviv University) 7. Henry James And Focalization, Or Why James Loves Gyp: J. Hillis Miller (university Of California At Irvine) 8. What Narratology And Stylistics Can Do For Each Other: Dan Shen (peking [beijing] University) 9. The Pragmatics Of Narrative Fiction: Richard Walsh (university Of York) Part Ii: Revisions And Innovations 10. Beyond The Poetics Of Plot: Alternative Forms Of Narrative Progression And The Multiple Trajectories Of Ulysses: Brian Richardson (university Of Maryland) 11. They Shoot Tigers, Don't They?: Path And Counterpoint In The Long Goodbye: Peter J. Rabinowitz (hamilton College) 12. Spatial Poetics And Arundhati Roy's The God Of Small Things: Susan Stanford Friedman (university Of Wisconsin-madison) 13. The I Of The Beholder: Equivocal Attachments And The Limits Of Structuralist Narratology: Susan S. Lanser (brandeis University) 14. Neonarrative; Or, How To Render The Unnarratable In Realist Fiction And Contemporary Film: Robyn R. Warhol (university Of Vermont) 15. Self-consciousness As A Narrative Feature And Force: Tellers Vs. Informants In Generic Design: Meir Sternberg (tel-aviv University) 16. Effects Of Sequence, Embedding, And Ekphrasis In Poe's The Oval Portrait: Emma. Kafalenos (washington University In St. Louis) 17. Mrs. Dalloway's Progeny: The Hours As Second-degree Narrative: Seymour Chatman (university Of California, Berkeley) Part Iii: Narrative Form And Its Relationship To History, Politics, And Ethics 18. Genre, Repetition, Temporal Order:some Aspects Of Biblical Narratology: David H. Richter (cuny) 19. Why Won't Our Terms Stay Put?: The Narrative Communication Diagram Scrutinized And Historicized: Harry E. Shaw (cornell University) 20. Gender And History In Narrative Theory: The Problem Of Retrospective Distance In David Copperfield And Bleak House: Alison Case (williams College) 21. Narrative Judgments And The Rhetorical Theory Of Narrative: Ian Mcewan's Atonement: James Phelan (ohio State University) 22. The Changing Faces Of Mount Rushmore: Collective Portraiture And Participatory National Heritage: Alison Booth (university Of Virginia) 23. The Trouble With Autobiography: Cautionary Notes For Narrative Theorists: Sidonie Smith (university Of Michigan) And Julia Watson (ohio State University) 24. On A Postcolonial Narratology: Gerald Prince (university Of Pennsylvania) 25. Modernist Soundscapes And The Intelligent Ear: An Approach To Narrative Through Auditory Perception: Melba Cuddy-keane (university Of Toronto) 26. In Two Voices, Or: Whose Life/death/story Is It, Anyway? Shlomith Rimmon-kenan (hebrew University Of Jerusalem) Part Iv: Beyond Literary Narrative 27. Narrative In And Of The Law: Peter Brooks (university Of Virginia) 28. Second Nature, Cinematic Narrative, The Historical Subject, And Russian Ark: Alan Nadel (rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) 29. Narrativizing The End: Death And Opera: Linda Hutcheon (university Of Toronto) And Michael Hutcheon (university Of Toronto) 30. Music And/as Cine-narrative Or: Ceci N'est Pas Un Leitmotif: Royal S. Brown (city University Of New York). 31. Classical Instrumental Music And Narrative: Fred E. Maus (university Of Virginia) 32. I'm Spartacus!: Catherine Gunther Kodat (hamilton College) 33. Shards Of A History Of Performance Art: Pollock And Namuth Through A Glass, Darkly: Peggy Phelan (stanford University) Epilogue 34. Narrative And Digitality: Learning To Think With The Medium: Marie-laure Ryan (author) 35. The Future Of All Narrative Futures: H. Porter Abbott. Edited By James Phelan And Peter J. Rabinowitz. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.